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NUFC_Chris

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I've been watching the ESPN coverage again and Frank LeBoef was giving him a hard time saying he's a "street footballer", all skill but no work ethic, Keegan said he'd only be any good in home games.  Both comments are total bollocks in my opinion.  Hatem actually did a lot of tracking back and blocking runs yesterday, and last season some of our best moves away from home came through him: WBA, Swansea & Bolton away spring to mind.

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I've been watching the ESPN coverage again and Frank LeBoef was giving him a hard time saying he's a "street footballer", all skill but no work ethic, Keegan said he'd only be any good in home games.  Both comments are total bollocks in my opinion.  Hatem actually did a lot of tracking back and blocking runs yesterday, and last season some of our best moves away from home came through him: WBA, Swansea & Bolton away spring to mind.

 

How dare you criticise comments from Keegan? He never talks bollocks. He's a club legend! Are you a mackem?

 

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I've been watching the ESPN coverage again and Frank LeBoef was giving him a hard time saying he's a "street footballer", all skill but no work ethic, Keegan said he'd only be any good in home games.  Both comments are total bollocks in my opinion.  Hatem actually did a lot of tracking back and blocking runs yesterday, and last season some of our best moves away from home came through him: WBA, Swansea & Bolton away spring to mind.

 

You just have to watch one game with HBA to see he is often right back there making it difficult for the opposing attacker. It's lazy journalism at the very least.

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Pundit is the most bullshit job in the world....even though I repected most of what KK had to say. They don't watch games man and then pass themselves off as experts. Waddle talked about Jonas having no pace yesterday.

 

I switch between finding their incompetence amusing and saddening.

 

So few decent ones.

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For me, Hatem was the stand-out player today.

 

“He was taking people on in all areas of the pitch and even got two of the Spurs players booked early on.

 

“Hatem won and scored the penalty and you need players like this if you are going to do well.

 

“It was a little white lie by me (when he said Ben Arfa wouldn’t start). I don’t tell too many, but that was one.

 

“He looked sharp in training. The only thing we were worried about was that he hadn’t had a lot of game time. The more I looked at him, the more I thought he was ready.

 

“He really was terrific today.”

 

It's not nice to lie, Pardew.

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For me, Hatem was the stand-out player today.

 

“He was taking people on in all areas of the pitch and even got two of the Spurs players booked early on.

 

“Hatem won and scored the penalty and you need players like this if you are going to do well.

 

“It was a little white lie by me (when he said Ben Arfa wouldn’t start). I don’t tell too many, but that was one.

 

“He looked sharp in training. The only thing we were worried about was that he hadn’t had a lot of game time. The more I looked at him, the more I thought he was ready.

 

“He really was terrific today.”

 

It's not nice to lie, Pardew.

pards loves to troll.  :lol:

 

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http://www.sundaysun.co.uk/sport/newcastle-united/nufc-news/2012/08/19/deliberate-ploy-to-trick-spurs-over-hatem-ben-arfa-79310-31652290/

 

Deliberate ploy to trick Spurs over Hatem Ben Arfa

 

Aug 19 2012 by Neil Cameron, Sunday Sun

 

ALAN PARDEW admitted being economical with the truth over the past week when he talked down the chances of Hatem Ben Arfa starting the new Premier League season.

 

Not only did the Frenchman begin yesterday’s win over Tottenham, he was head and shoulders above everyone else on the pitch and even scored the winner from the penalty spot.

 

Pardew was always going to play the 26-year-old who if anything looked even better than the player the Toon Army grew to love in the last campaign.

 

Ben Arfa had been given more time off to recover after Euro 2012, a tournament that proved a personal disaster for him as he fell out with head coach Laurent Blanc.

 

The Newcastle boss said: “For me, Hatem was the stand-out player today.

 

“He was taking people on in all areas of the pitch and even got two of the Spurs players booked early on.

 

“Hatem won and scored the penalty and you need players like this if you are going to do well.

 

“It was a little white lie by me (when he said Ben Arfa wouldn’t start). I don’t tell too many, but that was one.

 

“He looked sharp in training. The only thing we were worried about was that he hadn’t had a lot of game time. The more I looked at him, the more I thought he was ready.

 

“He really was terrific today.”

 

A 2-1 win over Tottenham is a fine result no matter what time of the season.

 

But given Ben Arfa and Yohan Cabaye had hardly figured in pre-season and that this eleven had not played together, it was an impressive victory.

 

Pardew said: “I thought we were really disciplined. We weren’t at our best, particularly in the first-half, and tactically it was a really tight game.

 

“We kept our two strikers on, which was important, because one of them, Demba Ba, has come up with a truly great goal.

 

“I don’t think you can under-estimate the importance of this win for us. It was a really tight game and sometimes your character and spirit can see you home, and I think we showed that.”

 

New £6.6million signing Vurnon Anita made his debut as a second-half substitute.

 

Pardew said: “The other players have been impressed by him in training. His first couple of touches were a little bit indifferent in the game. He was at Ajax for so many years and to come into this atmosphere was really difficult for him. But he grew into the match and did one great bit of skill down the wing.”

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It's incredible how he's gone from not playing to being unplayable in less than 12 months.

 

He's always been pretty much unplayable, though. That's what many were saying at the start of last season when he recovered from injury. He's always been our most talented player.

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Don't think he touched the ball for the first 10 mins. Looked great after that

 

He literally didn't. I remember looking at the clock after 9 mins and he hadn't even been close to getting on the ball, I was worried that he was completely unfit and was going to have a poor game. Then he picked the ball up for the first time and drifted past 3 players  :yao:

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Someone start a tally of how many points he earns us this season, suspect it'll be plenty, saw it end of last season he's not some mercurial player who flits in and out of games, he takes games by the scruff of the neck.he's the real deal

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Someone start a tally of how many points he earns us this season, suspect it'll be plenty, saw it end of last season he's not some mercurial player who flits in and out of games, he takes games by the scruff of the neck.he's the real deal

 

That's the best part about him. You see some flair players who do all their fancy trickery and nothing comes from it, but Hatem gets a load of assists and goals from his dribbling. His end product is brilliant.

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